Affordance

Definition

Affordance refers to the possibilities for action that objects or environments offer to an individual, based on their properties and the individual's capabilities.

Context

The concept of Affordance was introduced by the American psychologist James J. Gibson, not William Gibson. James J. Gibson coined the term Affordance in his 1966 book, The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems, and further developed it in his 1979 book, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception